As recently as yesterday Richard Cypher was a common forest guide, but now he is destined to become the Seeker of Truth. Magic doesn’t bring happiness, and power has its own price. The Seeker of Truth must come into battle with one of the greatest black wizards, ruthless Darken Rahl, the emperor of D’Hara… The Wizard’s first rule says: “People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they’re afraid it might be true. Peoples’ heads are full of knowledge, facts and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."